Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Broadcast FM is crap!

From:

Tim Pozar

Subject:

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Broadcast FM is crap!

Date:

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:03:08 -0800

Keep in mind that early stereo recordings were Left/Center/Right as pan-pots
were not available on some consoles. The stereo release of Sgt. Peppers is a
good example of this.
Tim
On Feb 19, 2012, at 10:08 AM, Andrew Davis wrote:
> I find quite the opposite, 60's bands will sometimes have the most
> stereo separation. When stereo recording came out they made the most
> of it, they would put whole instruments on just one channel, it would
> make you feel like you are in the middle of the band. Then the 70's
> "wall-of-sound" came out and it started to be had to pull generated
> instruments to one side without ruining the effect. Now its all just
> mono again.
>
> In this digital age its kinda strange we still use analog modulation.
> If it were digital, and there was not L-R information it would just
> encode the one signal better, not wasting information and bandwidth
> like FM.
>
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Marcus D. Leech <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 02/19/2012 12:46 PM, Andrew Davis wrote:
>>>
>>> The is a lot of really cool reasons for the stereo to be the way it
>>> is, check out http://transmitters.tripod.com/stereo.htm it's an
>>> amazing read.
>>>
>>> Also the problem of no stereo signal is probably with modern music,
>>> there is not much difference between L and R anymore, just a single
>>> channel of mass produced noise, so since the're subtractive, silence
>>> is broadcast on the L-R signal, not like days past when Pink Floyd
>>> would fly you though space on both channels!
>>>
>> Yes, I recognize that a lot of modern mixing leads to almost no stereo
>> separation.
>> But this is a classic rock station. I would expect the really-old stuff
>> (old Beetles, for
>> example) to be mono, but stuff produced in the 1970s and 1980s you'd expect
>> to
>> have good stereo separation.
>>
>> Ironically, the *advertisements* have better stereo than the music sources!!
>>
>>
>> --
>> Marcus Leech
>> Principal Investigator
>> Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium
>> http://www.sbrac.org
>>
>>
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